Disease relevance of Fuel Oils

• Production of alternatives to fuel oil from organic waste by the alkane-producing bacterium, Vibrio furnissii M1 [1].

High impact information on Fuel Oils

• We investigated the mechanisms through which vanadium pentoxide (V2O5), the major form of vanadium released from the industrial burning of fuel oil, activated the signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)-1 [2].
• A light fuel oil was enriched with 15 organometallic compounds of the following elements: Pb, Hg, As, Cu, Zn, Cd, Se, Sn, Mn, V, Tl, Ni, Co, Cr, and Sb [3].
• The molecular markers for these emissions include the high molecular weight PAHs, the n-alkanes, a Carbon Preference Index approximately 1 (odd carbon:even carbon approximately 1), as well as pristane and phytane as specific markers for fuel oil degradation [4].
• On December 25th, some heavy fuel oil released by the tanker came ashore along the French Atlantic Coast. Some oil residues and oiled bird feathers were collected all along the Atlantic Shoreline of France after the wreck of the Erika tanker [5].
• Atmospheric emissions of mercury from fuel oil burned in the United States are estimated in the U.S. EPA Mercury Report to Congress to be approximately 10000 kg/yr, and this estimate may be in error on the high side by a factor of 3-10 [6].

Biological context of Fuel Oils

• BACKGROUND: Occupational exposure to fuel-oil ash, with its high vanadium content, may cause respiratory illness [7].
• Inhalation of ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosive; and possible concomitant exposure [8].
• PROCEDURES: Mink were exposed once to a slick of oil (Alaskan North Slope crude oil or bunker C fuel oil) on seawater or via low-level contamination of their daily rations [9].
• Fresh water algae were subjected to different concentrations (0.03, 0.07, 0.12, 0.25 and 0.5 g x l(-1)) of aqueous extract of reference fuel oil (EPA, USA, API Oil No. 2, 38% aromatic, 1274) [10].

Anatomical context of Fuel Oils

• Cell survivability of a cultured SP1K renal cell line from the Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella plagiodon was reduced in a dose-dependent manner after a 12-h exposure to fuel oil [11].

Associations of Fuel Oils with chemical compounds

• Only six elements in the fuel oil (As, Ba, Co, Ni, Se and V) had certified or indicated values [12].
• For 2 weeks, he had intensely inhaled Coleman fuel oil vapor, which contains n-hexane [13].
• An amount of 5 g of naphtha or fuel oil is diluted to 10 ml with dichloromethane and spiked with a small quantity (ca. 0.25 micrograms) of 14C-labeled BaP tracer [14].
• Of the six ARM components, No. 2 fuel oil was the most toxic followed in decreasing order by sulfide, ammonia, phenol, chromium, and kaolinite [15].
• Selectivity was demonstrated with solvent spiked with fuel oil and atrazine [16].

Gene context of Fuel Oils

• Microwave digestion of "residual fuel oil" (NIST SRM 1634b) for the determination of trace elements by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry [17].
• Control is maintained by regular residual insecticide sprayings with DDT, regular larviciding with fuel oil and fortnightly issue of amodiaquine chemoprophylactic to all workers [18].
• Pulmonary function in workers exposed to low levels of fuel-oil ash [19].
• Short and long term effects of a fuel oil spill from a grounded ship "M V Sea Transporter" on meiofauna of a sandy beach of central West Coast of India were investigated [20].
• On 4 February 1999, the Japanese-owned cargo ship M/V New Carissa, carrying an estimated 400,000 gallons of light diesel and heavy fuel oil, ran aground 2 miles north of Coos Bay, Oregon. Damage to the ship's hull from the grounding and pounding surf caused the release of an estimated 25,000 to 70,000 gallons of oil [21].

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